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• Troy Buswell survived the party room today

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-05 • ( 13 )

  Despite global public censure and an apparent lack of local electoral support, serial sexual harasser Troy Buswell today survived a spill motion in the party room, and continues to lead the Liberal Party of Western Australia. The State election is… Read More ›

• Asylum seekers, Australia’s retraumatisation policy, and healthcare ally work

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-05 • ( 3 )

  This post will be submitted to The Angry Black Woman’s Carnival of Allies. As white people working on being allies people of colour, we can’t speak for or on behalf of POC. What we can do is speak out to… Read More ›

• Weekend Links: A Day In The Life

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-04 • ( 2 )

  For anyone who is trying to fool themselves that the next generation is inheriting a ‘postfeminist’ world, read Hell On Hairy Legs’ summary of a day in the life of a feminist highschooler. This is what my schedule looks like… Read More ›

• BADD: The radical notion that people with disabilities are people, and Australia’s 2020 Summit

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-01 • ( 13 )

  This post is a part of Blogging Against Disablism Day. Update: BADD isn’t over yet, but if you want to get a start on reading the posts, check out the roundup at Diary of a Goldfish. For most people, health… Read More ›

• “Save Second Base!”: The Reaction responds

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-01 • ( 1 )

  The Reaction: ” Fighting against breast cancer… and also against breast cancer campaigns” LindaBeth lays bare the sexist framework of some breast cancer awareness campaigns: “We men” love “boobies,” so we’ll work real hard so you don’t have to have… Read More ›

• Ask Auntie Hoyden

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-30 • ( 13 )

  Don’t you just love How-people-found-us search term posts? As usual, I’ve ignored all the searches about rape, paedophilia, and pictures of fat naked women, which doesn’t leave a lot. Here are a few things people have googled this week to… Read More ›

• Judge-endorsed abuse by protective services: more on the FLDS mother-child foster separation issue

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-29 • ( 3 )

  In a followup to this issue mentioned under Tigtog’s post “The FLDS polygamy and statutory rape farm”, Time Magazine has a piece on the FLDS “rescue”[1] in Texas. “The Texas Polygamist Sect: Uncoupled and Unchartered” Caught in the middle is… Read More ›

• Then and now: on acuteness and chronicity.

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-29 • ( 5 )

  I used to wait until I was sick enough to go to the doctor. Now I wait till I’m well enough to go to the doctor. I used to not mind a long wait, so long as I had plenty… Read More ›

• Fat is a macronutrient, not a sin: Act Three

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-29 • ( 7 )

  52 Acts of Political Correctness: Act Three [original post here, 52something meme here] Yesterday the lad came home from seeing the Wizard of Oz show, and started excitedly telling me about the characters. “And the Tin Man”, he said with… Read More ›

• No, no, no, just no.

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-28 • ( 11 )

  The Age: ‘Groomer’ jailed for sex with 12-year-old No. Rape isn’t sex. [cut for child rape triggers]